this print for content only—size & color not accurate spine = 0.844" 440 page count Books for professionals By professionals® Pro Hadoop Dear Reader, Pro Hadoop is a guide to using Hadoop Core, a wonderful tool that allows you to use ordinary hardware to solve extraordinary problems. In the course of my work, I have needed to build applications that would not fit on a single afford- able machine, creating custom scaling and distribution tools in the process. With the advent of Hadoop and MapReduce, I have been able to focus on my applications instead of worrying about how to scale them. It took some time before I had learned enough about Hadoop Core to actu- ally be effective. This book is a distillation of that knowledge, and a book I wish was available to me when I first started using Hadoop Core. I begin by showing you how to get started with Hadoop and the Hadoop Core shared file system, HDFS. Then you will see how to write and run func- tional and effective
